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Five Chances To Get To Know More About the Inscrutable Joan Didion. Biographers of subjects like Didion look for that other self that the public prose conceals. Her unsmiling face is the evidence of a ...
The achingly human art of Michelle Obama’s portraitist Amy Sherald’s portraits, now at New York’s Whitney museum, are an unsettling fusion of the intimate and the unknown.
Rorschach tests play with the human imagination and our mind's ability to impart meaning onto the world around us – but what does AI see in them? We gave an AI a Rorschach test.
Rorschach tests play with the human imagination and our mind's ability to impart meaning onto the world around us – but what does AI see in them? For more than a century, the Rorschach inkblot ...
Interviewed about the origins of the name to a reporter on Belgian TV in 1969, Ratledge says, “It’s a generic term for the whole of the human species. Because we’re a pop group we assume that we’re ...
The numbers were completely opaque and inscrutable to human eyes. But this strategy, they found, created “emergent advanced reasoning patterns” in the model.
Ethel Cain is Inscrutable and Fascinating on Perverts The EP ruminates on distorted desires, but it’s also an exploration of drone and noise, a treatise on what it’s like to watch and be ...
A Saudi-backed business school in Switzerland has launched a Doomsday Clock to warn the world about the harms of “uncontrolled artificial general intelligence,” what it calls a “god-like” AI.
AIs have a big problem with truth and correctness – and human thinking appears to be a big part of that problem. A new generation of AI is now starting to take a much more experimental approach ...
“No one in human history lived a more chronicled life than the Queen,” Craig Brown writes in the opening pages of A Voyage Around the Queen, his biography of the woman who became Elizabeth II ...
The inscrutable alien 'minds' of AI models. These remarkable pieces of software are very different to most of what's come before them. Their human creators have built the architecture, ...
Harrison C. White, a theoretical physicist-turned-sociologist who upended the study of human relations and society by examining how social networks shape the unseen forces of everyday life, died ...